Success Stories

WriteMentor Picture Book Award runner-up Tracy Curran describes her experience and her publishing journey so far

WriteMentor Hub member Kristina Rahim shares her journey to receiving agent representation

Author Clare Thompson shares her experience of WriteMentor’s summer mentoring programme

Dee Benson, who found her agent through WriteMentor’s summer mentoring programme and whose novel, ‘Glow Up, Lara Bloom’, is out now, shares how the experience developed her writing and gave her insights into the publishing world

Author Zoe Scott FitzGibbon shares her experience of WriteMentor’s summer mentoring programme with Philip Kavvadias

Jan Dunning WriteMentor success story

Jan Dunning, author of Young Adult novel Mirror Me, shares how her confidence grew thanks to WriteMentor mentoring

Writer Aerin Apeltun describes how being part of the Hub WriteMentor community helped her secure publication for debut novel

Writer Melissa Kay Valente describes how being part of the WriteMentor community via the Hub membership platform helped her secure agent representation.

Author Sophie Siddall shares her experience of WriteMentor’s summer mentoring programme mentored by Anna Britton

“Mentoring [is] an invaluable resource, given selflessly by hard-working, talented mentors who give up their time to help less experienced writers.” Author Laura Noakes shares how her mentor’s insightful comments …

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Valerie Norton shares how she successfully applied to the WriteMentor summer mentoring programme, which led to agent representation

Author Becky Orwin shares her experience of the WriteMentor summer mentoring programme

Author Lynn Grace Wong shares her experience of the WriteMentor summer mentoring programme, and how it helped her grow as a writer

Author Daphne Dador describes experience of WriteMentor’s summer mentoring porgramme

Author Richard B. Knight describes his experience of WriteMentor’s summer programme, and how his mentor’s guidance helped him secure the agent of his dreams

Author Emma Bradley shares the highs and lows of publishing her debut, ‘The Trouble with Fairies’, and her self-publishing advice

Chris Galvin, author of middle grade fantasy novel The Thing About Giants, which was shortlisted for the WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award, discusses his journey to agent representation

Nadine Holland, WriteMentor author

Author Nadine Holland shares her experience of the WriteMentor summer mentoring programme and how it led to agent representation.

Author Laura Collins

Author Laura Collins describes her experience of WriteMentor’s 5-week WriteStart course with author Jenny Pearson, and how it helped her secure agent representation

Author Alexandra Page shares the publishing journey of her debut children’s novel Wishyouwas

Brianna Bourne WriteMentor success story

Author Brianna Bourne describes her experience of WriteMentor’s summer mentoring programme and how it helped her both rewrite her Young Adult novel and secure agent representation.

Author Meagan Dallner

Author Meagan Dallner describes her experience of the WriteMentor’s summer mentoring programme

Heather Fishwick author

Former mentee Heather Fishwick shares experience of WriteMentor’s mentoring programme, working on her novel ‘Mirrored Snow’.

WriteMentor Novel Award winner Sean Dooley shares writing journey, award experience and advice.

Author Emma Pearl

Picture Book author Emma Pearl shares her experience of being mentored by ‘Deep Water’ author Lu Hersey on WriteMentor’s summer mentoring programme

WriteMentor Spark mentee Lucille Abendanon

Author Lucille Abendanon describes her experience of WriteMentor’s Spark mentoring programme with author Lindsay Galvin and how it helped her secure agent representation for her Middle Grade novel.

WriteMentor author Lenore Stutznegger

Lenore Stutznegger, author of ‘Blue Shadows Fall’, shares her experience of the WriteMentor summer mentoring programme

George Jreije author and former WriteMentor mentee

Author George Jreije shares his experience as a mentee on WriteMentor’s summer mentoring programme

After studying songwriting at university and returning to Suffolk to set up a music tuition business, Georgia Gant finally decided to get serious about her writing dream.  After a couple of years writing …

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Author Emily Kenny describes her experience of WriteMentor’s Spark programme, Writing Weekends, and Aisha Bushby’s Preparing for Submission course.

WriteMentor Spark is a monthly, online one-to-one mentoring service. Working with a children’s author, writers receive ongoing developmental editing, writing advice, publishing insights, and direct feedback on their manuscript to …

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After being long listed for the WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award, Amy Borg took part in the WriteMentor 2019 summer mentoring programme where she worked on her Young Adult fantasy manuscript …

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From WriteMentor mentee to agented author, read how Krystle Brantzeg shaped her Young Adult contemporary romance manuscript with the help of author Brandy Woods Snow.

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